The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-12-07
NO. Is.

Assembly a plan which will make the Uni
Verslty OF South Carolina cover so far as
an institution OF learning can, all the wants
and all the diversified interests of this State.
!, There hiss been no tardiness, no indiffer-
ence. The progress has been Ietarded sim
ply by the poverty and inability of the
State. Aswe lave improved and increased
in wealth and strength our institutions of
learning have progressed.
Our report submits now to the General
Assembly wide university scheme. which
will have in one college all and more than
all which was ever contained in the South
Carolina College. 1t will be a college of
agriculture and mechanical art which will
equal any college Of agriculture or mechan-
ical arts now in operation in the Southern
States, and we think in any State in the
Union. Applause That college is fol-
lowed by a college pharmacy which covers
class Of wants, compreheuds the neces-
sity which has forced our young men up to
this time to leave South Carolina and 90
elsewhere to acquire that profession. It
comprehends college for the instruction
! of teachers, normal school which will
train the young men of South Carolina in
the art and scence ofteaching, it has law
school where young men who are devoted
to that profession can acquire their diplo-
ma. The graduates of the college of agn
culture and mechanic arts will be as well
prepared is they are in any institution of
learning Of that name anywhere in the
United States to enter upon the pursuits of
agriculture and mechanic arts. It prom
ises to open to our young men field for
employment and promotion in the practical
science of manufacturing, mining and civil
engineering, which are q par: and parcel of
the manufacturing business and enterprises
which promote the wealth of every State
in the United States.
Hitherto our young men nave been un-
able to complete, and those who occupied
these positions Of elevation and strength are
brought from abroad The graduates in
agriculture are to be trained in the highest
schools of science in that department The
experimental farm is now in operation.
Our mechanical workshop, with the little
means at hand, is IL operation hope you
gentlemen will go there and see the work
of the hands Of the youths of South Caro-
lima. The workshop has been built by their
hands, the interior work is all done by
them The tools aud machinery in that
building are of their construction.
You can 60 in the laboratory of the
chemical school and witness there what
they are learning This place doubles, 8
trebles, magnifes everything which was
exhibited there in the beginning of that
school. Ii makes it separate and distinct;
it makes the graduates of the agricultural
and mechanical department the peers of
any graduates of any other college, and I
trust that the labor of the board of trustees
will not be in vain, that this will meet not
only with your approval, but the hearty
approval of our Representatives in the Cen
eral Assembly.
Thanking you for the honor conferred,
| take the liberty of handing this report to
your chairman"
Judge Haskells remarks were received
as information.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
Captain Tillman made the report of
the Committee on Resolutions, prefacing
the same by some remarks to the effect
that Of the sundry resolutions referred to
them, they had rejected one and changed
or embodied the others in those which
they had to report. The report was as
follows:
s'The Committee on Resolutions beg
leave to submit the following report:
'sReso we'd, That the Convention does
earnestly urge the Legislature to estab-
ish seperste Agricultural College, and
to reorganize the Bureau
s:Resolved, That it is not the purpose
OF the farmers of the State to make their
organization political body, hostile to
other classes, nor is it their intention to
attack the integrity OF our State officers,
nor their policy to arraign or dictate to
the Legislature.
''Resolved, That we believe In the
thorough organization of tde farmers of
the State, with the object and firm pur-
pose of developing the agricultural
sources.
'.Resolved, That we regret the action
! Of snma of tae counties which declined
to send delegates to this Convention, and
respectfully invite them hereafter to
unite with the Farmers movement.
s'Resolved, That we believe in the ne
cessity and propriety OF recognizing the
Agricultural Department, to make it
more efficient, and useful, and respect
fully ask the Legislature to give careful
consideration to the several bills already
introduced in their body looking to that
end"
A motion that the report be adopted
was carried-no one voting IN the mega
tive.
Captain Tillman then offered resolu-
ton which is exactly the same as the fifth
article of the platform adopted at last
! years Convention. It was adopted, and
reads as follows:
"We urge the Legislature MOTTO squan-
der the States property BY allowing the
wholesale expectation of phosphates at
merely nominal prices, and that with
view Of lessening the burdens of taxation
they take into consideration the advisa-
bility of increasing the phosphate roy
atty"
The Association then adjourned sine
die.